Improvement in billiard-counter



naar sans VHARVEY BALL, or WALPoLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Letters Patent N 92,247, lated July 6, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN IBILLIARD-COUNTER The Schedule referred to nthese`Letters- Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY BALL, of Walpole, in the county of Cheshire, and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Billiard-Counting; and I do hereby declare -tliat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to .the accompanying` drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l represents a plan view, with the dial removed Figure 2, a perspective view of the lower clamp; Figure 3, a perspective of the upper clamp; Figure 4, -a perspective of the clamp and stop combined; and

Figure 5, a plan view, showing the counters and dial. l

Similar letters indicate like parts in all the figures. The object of my invention is to construct a maf chine forcounting and discounting games of billiards; and to this end it consists in the employment of a box provided with wheels and springs, operated by means of keys, by which -theuumber of points made, and the games played, are indicated substantially in the man-v ner hereinafter specified. To enable others skilled in the art towhich my inr vention appertains, to make and use the same, I will now describe it.`

In the accompanying drawings- A represents an ordinary box, which is divided into two parts by the partition a, so as to construct a device forcounting in each division of .the box.

B represents a wheel, formed with teeth around its circumference, as seen in the drawing,

This wheel is pivoted to the hoxAby means of the shaft a passing through the cross-bar l), and entering a receptacle formed in the bottom ofthe box.

On the cross-bar is secured the wooden plate b', the shaft c passing through this plate.

c represents a toothed wheel, pivoted to the plate b', by means ofthe metal bar c'.

d is a spring-pawl, one end of which is pivotedto the bar or plate b', and the other formed with a bend, which works into the toothed wheel c.

d represents av spring attached to a cap, secured to the head of the shaft, and working into the toothed wheel c. The plate b is slotted on its lower surface, so as to form an opening between itself and the crossbar b. In this opening, around the shaft a', is coiled the spring e.

Below the cross-bar b, on the shaft a', is attached the lever c1, provided with a spring, e2, which is so arranged, in connection with the plate f, which is secured to the toothed wheel B, that by each lrevolution of the wheel B, the spring e3 will strike the projection on the plate f, and disen gage the toothed wheel cfrom the pawl d, thereby permitting a new game to be com-` nienced;

This game will be indicated by the small hand x on the dial in the manner hereinafter described.

f represents a wooden block attached to the bottom of the box. -1

` Onthis block is'pivoted the pawl g, one end work-' ing into the toothed wheel B; and the other end provided witha pin which works in combination with the end of the --lev'er f,prcvided with the spring g.I It will be observed that the end of this lever is formed so as to end the teeth of the wheel B, as seen in fig. 1. The end of the lever ff is-provided with the rod h, connecting with the pivotedlever h', secured to a block attached to the block f.- This lever is also provided with a spring, T. The leverhl is attached at its outer end to the rod (i, which connects with one end of the pivoted triangular lever i, the other end of this lever being attached to the discount-key D. I

The block f is also provided with the pivoted stop i?, and with an upright, to which is attached one end of the rod i, which isprovided with theleverj,'; acting` at its lower end upon the lever fi The outer end of the rod i is-attached tothe upperV end of the lever k, (seen in iig. 4) the lower end ofthe E lever being attached to one end of the rod k. The f other end of this rod is secured to one arm of the pivoted lever l. The other end of this lever is pivoted toA Zrepresents a block secured'to the bottom' of the box A,v as seenin g. 1, and is provided with the pivoted double-acting .pawl m, one end being so arranged as to work in the teeth made in the whcelB, and the other end acting as a stop, in the manner hereinafter described l This pawl is also provided with a spring, fm.

F- represents a block which is provided with the pivoted lever n, to which is attached the spring n.

' The spring ez, heretofore described, acts upon one end of this lever, while the other end of the lever 'n 1 works in connection with the flange o, secured to the slide o.

The slide o' slides in a horizontal direction against the upper surface of the partition p, and is provided 'with the pivoted. leversp p2, which workin connection with springs attached'to their ends.

On the lower surface of the partition p is slid the i S S S are springs attached to the bottom ofthe box- A, and working in connection with the bars H* I'I2 H.

` ters Patent, is-

1. The latch n and stop f, arranged in connection with the slide o and toothed wheel, B, substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

2. The pawl n, constructed and operated in connection with pin ni, and slide o', substantially as and for the purpose described.

' 3. The pivoted levers p p, arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination of the levers p p, slide o,' and pawl m, substantially as andfor the purpose described.

5. The toothed wheel B, -provided with stop f and pin, j?, in combination with latch n and dog, e, operating as and for the purpose set forth.

6. The pawls g and f, operating conjointly or independently, for either setting back one or more points, substantially in the manner described.

7. The combination of the lever h', pawls g and fz, and toothed 'wheels B, all operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

8. The combination of the pawlf, with lever g and toothed wheel B, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my Own, I ax my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

` HARVEY BALL.

Witnesses;

fJonN W.. LovEJoY,

JOHN H. SMITH. 

